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Did Valerie Jarrett Issue the Order to Stand Down in Benghazi? (Rush Limbaugh)
The Rush Limbaugh Show ^ | 8-6-2013 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 08/06/2013 11:46:25 AM PDT by smoothsailing

Did Valerie Jarrett Issue the Order to Stand Down in Benghazi?

August 06, 2013

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RUSH: There is a somewhat shocking report that I came across today at a website run by Doug Ross. It's called the Conservative Report. Doug Ross maintains here that Valerie Jarrett gave the orders to stand down in Benghazi. Valerie Jarrett, who constitutionally is not in the chain of command and cannot do that. And that's why this, if true, is a bombshell. Valerie Jarrett nixed the raid on bin Laden three separate times, remember, and the adults had to come in and basically act on the intel that they had as to where bin Laden was. It was Valerie Jarrett who put off three separate times an attack to either capture or kill bin Laden.

It was Panetta and Hillary and some others, apparently, who just finally overruled her and started the operation. They pulled Obama off the golf course for the photo op-ed, after the event had already begun. But Doug Ross is saying here: "Confidential sources close to Conservative Report have confirmed that Valerie Jarrett was the key decision-maker for the administration, the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack on 9/11/2012. The chronology of the evening of 9/11 are as follows:

"At approximately 5 PM Washington time, reports came in through secure-channels that Special Mission Benghazi was under attack. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey summoned the President, and briefed him on the crisis, face to face." And remember, this is the meeting where Obama is reported to have said to both -- well, actually all three, Panetta, Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Hillary. "You guys do what you have to do," and he vanishes. This is the best intel that we've got. And the story for the longest time, "Where was Obama?" Because he was off the grid for the next seven hours. Nobody knew where he was. And, remember, throughout all of this, we're all asking, "Who issued the order to stand down?" Because that can only come from the top.

I don't know how many times that I made the statement on this program, "The secretary of defense cannot order people to stand down. The secretary of defense cannot order, on the other hand, forces from, say, Italy to enter the theater and engage. That has to come via the chain of command. That has to come from the top, and the top in this case is Obama, not an aide." So if this is true, this really, really is a bombshell.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazicoverup; benghazijarrett; corruption; democrats; govtabuse; jarrett; obama; rush; rushlive; rushtranscript; scandals
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1 posted on 08/06/2013 11:46:25 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Well, this story has made the big time, so Doug Ross better not be pulling this out of his arse.


2 posted on 08/06/2013 11:48:30 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: smoothsailing

The US Congress simply does not care.

If it is not about BROTHELS, WHORES, BEING DRUNK,
“RAPING” the AMERICAN TAXPAYER, Funding al QAEDA,
or helping criminals, the US Congress is TOO busy
cashing their payoffs and bribes.


3 posted on 08/06/2013 11:48:59 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: smoothsailing

Ping for later


4 posted on 08/06/2013 11:49:19 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("Thus, my opponent's argument falls.")
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To: smoothsailing

Folks looks like the truth will be revealed drip by drip. Good for Rush for mentioning this. One can not buried the truth for so long.


5 posted on 08/06/2013 11:49:45 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Diogenesis

” the US Congress is TOO busy
cashing their payoffs and bribes”

100% pure whores.


6 posted on 08/06/2013 11:50:56 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
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To: dirtboy

Agreed, Ross needs to back this up. Who’s his source.


7 posted on 08/06/2013 11:52:24 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing; SENTINEL; okie01

Thanks Rush! Now how do we find the smoking gun to prove it?


8 posted on 08/06/2013 11:52:25 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: Diogenesis
The US Congress simply does not care.And OUR problems will only get worse with Libs in power ... unless WE make them fear US!
9 posted on 08/06/2013 11:55:27 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: smoothsailing

And who is Ross? Does he have a history of credibility?


10 posted on 08/06/2013 11:55:33 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: smoothsailing
Jarret is Obama's Lady McBeth. That Obama just wandered off during this crisis and set a domestic policy adviser to the situation room as his surrogate shows incompetence and dereliction of his duty as POTUS.
11 posted on 08/06/2013 11:57:32 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: smoothsailing
Three Facts

Fact One:

1) Only the POTUS can authorize a CBA (cross border authority) command for a rescue mission in a foreign nation.

Plus Fact Two:

2) No rescue mission was attempted.

Equals Fact Three:

3) 0bama turned his back on 41 State Dept. and CIA employees refusing to issue a CBA command and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.

12 posted on 08/06/2013 11:57:57 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: smoothsailing; Nachum

Rush watches FR ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3051723/posts


13 posted on 08/06/2013 11:57:58 AM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us about 0bama's America)
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To: Diogenesis

I truly don’t think any of those things would matter to Congress either....


14 posted on 08/06/2013 11:58:29 AM PDT by nitzy (You can avoid reality but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.)
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To: smoothsailing

Valerie Jarrett, who constitutionally is not in the chain of command and cannot do that.”

lol. the hell she can’t!

“And that’s why this, if true, is a bombshell.”

lol. it is true, and it is no bombshell.


15 posted on 08/06/2013 12:00:14 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Piranha

Does Obama?


16 posted on 08/06/2013 12:01:11 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Diogenesis

“If it is not about BROTHELS, WHORES, BEING DRUNK,
“RAPING” the AMERICAN TAXPAYER, Funding al QAEDA,
or helping criminals, the US Congress is TOO busy
cashing their payoffs and bribes.”

You forgot violence in football and steroid use.


17 posted on 08/06/2013 12:02:04 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
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To: smoothsailing

I think BO has to tell us where he was first. And only the pres is authorized to order a ‘stand down’ order and it was issued.


18 posted on 08/06/2013 12:02:53 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: smoothsailing
The POTUS is briefed in the late afternoon that a consulate is under attack on 9/11. He then disappears in the early evening after a phone conference with Bibi, and doesn’t resurface until he’s on AF1 on the way to his Vegas fundraiser.

The WH has declined, repeatedly, to describe his whereabouts.

Kind of makes you go “hmmmmmmmmm.”

Sounds to me like Barry had an appointment in Boystown, and he wasn’t going to miss it for anything as trivial as a murdered Ambassador.

19 posted on 08/06/2013 12:03:36 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: smoothsailing

It’s tricky.

The president has to affirmatively allow military action in other countries.

Was there a scheme so Obama could give the military “cross border authority” yet prevent it from acting through other means?


20 posted on 08/06/2013 12:08:16 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: TigersEye
and went to bed so he could go to Las Vegas the next day.

...or something.

21 posted on 08/06/2013 12:08:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Piranha

Ross Limburger.


22 posted on 08/06/2013 12:08:53 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: TigersEye

Fact Four:

Woodrow Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke and spent the last six months of his Presidency incapacitated. This fact was kept from all but a tight circle of confidants (a MSM reporter actually facilitated this by writing and publishing a fake interview indicating that Wilson was okay). During this time, Wilson’s wife, Edith, made all his decisions and acted basically as the de-facto President until Warren G. Harding was sworn in. Only years later did historians learn of this.

So, if it happened once...


23 posted on 08/06/2013 12:10:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ConservativeDude
lol. it is true, and it is no bombshell.

You're right. However, it should be.

24 posted on 08/06/2013 12:10:14 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished.)
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To: smoothsailing
This will go to the territory of Urban Legend unless someone comes up with a legitimate reason this was reported in the first place.

It certainly sounds like something the WH would have done but that's not enough for so much conjecture.

25 posted on 08/06/2013 12:10:31 PM PDT by what's up
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To: presently no screen name

Obama has a record of utter unbelievability, but I don’t understand the point of your question unless you believe it is a viable conservative strategy to combat lies with lies.

I do not believe that this would be a good way to defeat Obama-ism and that is why I am asking about Ross’s history of credibility.


26 posted on 08/06/2013 12:11:10 PM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: mojito

How high did he go? My guess he was incapacitated. One of the original comments was “0 was sleeping”. Those who have lived with an active addict knows that SLEEPING is code for passed out!


27 posted on 08/06/2013 12:11:20 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Yes, he had more pressing business to attend to in the WH Love nest.
28 posted on 08/06/2013 12:11:53 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

So, you’re saying that 0bamster was just stroking it?


29 posted on 08/06/2013 12:13:34 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: smoothsailing

Obama was in the White House the whole time.

So, what was he doing that evening?

Why would ANYONE else be making his decisions for him that night?

The key to Benghazi is what was Obama doing the night of September 11th?

When we know that, we will know what kind of people we really are by what our response is.


30 posted on 08/06/2013 12:14:40 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: TigersEye

Where was Reggie Love that night?


31 posted on 08/06/2013 12:17:16 PM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: exit82

A sleeping president can be awoken. No president is ever “unavailable”- surely their whereabouts are always known.
That leaves 3 scenarios for me...
1. He was in a “state” that could only resolved by time and sleep (alcohol? Drugs?-that sort of thing)
2. He slipped the Secret Service again (remember in the first term? When he allegedly ditched his detail to watch “soccer”?)
Or
3. He simply refused to deal with it. He voted “present” again and shrugged it off to Valerie or Panetta- or Hillary

Either way - we know he was not in the Situation Room or they would have released that photo prior to the election.


32 posted on 08/06/2013 12:23:12 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Diogenesis

Yep, what you said. They just don’t give. Damn..


33 posted on 08/06/2013 12:24:52 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: smoothsailing

The nit picky difference is that Jarrett likely told the Sec-Def that “The Prez is NOT providing Cross Border Authority”

The net effect is the same as a “stand down” order, but there’s technical difference.

I hope BO is forced to acknowledge that is the thin reed he’s hiding behind.


34 posted on 08/06/2013 12:25:49 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: ConservativeDude
Valerie Jarrett, who constitutionally is not in the chain of command and cannot do that.”

lol. the hell she can’t!

She has been the invisible president all the while. She brought him to power in Illinois and took charge in D.C. He does not decide on anything without her input. She and Axelrod are the two most powerful people in the executive branch, unelected though they may be. Nbr. 3 is Michelle. Bambi runs a poor fourth.

35 posted on 08/06/2013 12:26:04 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: dirtboy

Agreed, or Doug can go find another line of work.


36 posted on 08/06/2013 12:32:29 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: Scotswife

obama was NOT asleep.

NOBODY goes to “sleep” at 5:30pm.

He needs to ACCOUNT for his whereabouts between 5pm and “bedtime”, whenever that might be.

I cannot believe congress can’t be bothered. They should be tarred and feathered and run OUT of DC.


37 posted on 08/06/2013 12:33:07 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: G Larry
The nit picky difference is that Jarrett likely told the Sec-Def that “The Prez is NOT providing Cross Border Authority”
The net effect is the same as a “stand down” order, but there’s technical difference.

We're of the same mind on this, it also allows him to say he [technically] did not give a stand down order.

38 posted on 08/06/2013 12:35:10 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Rats vs. GOPe = Same train, different speed.)
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To: smoothsailing

Has Rush mentioned her lizardly dastardly simularities?


39 posted on 08/06/2013 12:36:14 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: presently no screen name
And only the pres is authorized to order a ‘stand down’ order and it was issued.

Legally. Since when has this bunch ever observed laws? I can easily imagine Jarrett giving an order like this.

40 posted on 08/06/2013 12:36:21 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: joethedrummer

He was probably doing drugs. Smoking weed or doing coke, and freaked when he heard the screams and desperate pleas for help. Unable to deal, he withdrew..


41 posted on 08/06/2013 12:36:42 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
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To: Cyber Liberty

If she has access to his auto-pen she can do anything she wants to do !


42 posted on 08/06/2013 12:40:01 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: joethedrummer

Exactly. I don’t think “sleeping” is plausible at all. He needs to be held accountable? By who?
Was he held accountable when he closed the car dealerships? When he buzzed Manhattan with Air Force One? When drug lords killed with our weapons?
Accountable for election fraud?
Will he be held accountable for the drones? The snooping? Political targeting?

The pattern was set from the very beginning.
Democrats are never held “accountable”


43 posted on 08/06/2013 12:40:59 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Diogenesis
If it is not about BROTHELS, WHORES, BEING DRUNK, “RAPING” the AMERICAN TAXPAYER, Funding al QAEDA, or helping criminals, the US Congress is TOO busy cashing their payoffs and bribes.

To these ass hats, these "qualities" are resume enhancers.

44 posted on 08/06/2013 12:41:13 PM PDT by Mark17 (Yesterday I couldn't spell it. Today I are one, a creepy a$$ cracker)
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To: G Larry

Rush’s “Constitutional authority” comment is either an example of Rush thoughtlessly mailing it in, or it is some kind of insider tweak. Is Rush hinting at a paper or e- trail?

If the chain of command takes some aide’s word for it, what’s the Constitutional problem? Aren’t the chain of command details between the President and the DoD left up to the WH itself?


46 posted on 08/06/2013 12:50:35 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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To: smoothsailing

If the POS is in the bath house, VJ can do it.


47 posted on 08/06/2013 12:52:43 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I can easily imagine Jarrett giving an order like this.

So can I. Even bo asking her - if he even thought of it - if he was around.

48 posted on 08/06/2013 12:57:58 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: PowderMonkey
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Check out # 35.

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49 posted on 08/06/2013 12:59:38 PM PDT by LucyT (What happens in Vegas stays in the Utah data center.)
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To: smoothsailing

OK. Let’s say Jarrett told Panetta and Dempsey that no assistance was to be given. Pretty easy to determine. Bring Panetta and Dempsey in and put them under oath and ask them.
This is easy to cover with an agreed upon lie by Obama and Jarrett UNLESS they can show Obama being someplace else.
It’s also too easy. Obama could just say he never told her that and throw her under the bus.
Why did Hillary and Obama use US taxpayer funded personnel, equipment and facilities to overthrow the government of Libya?


50 posted on 08/06/2013 1:10:03 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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